How the NSA manipulated the U.S. Navy, Pentagon, White House, Congress, tricked the North Koreans, Russians and Chinese, almost caused a war, and concealed the truth for over 40 years. On January 23, 1968, the North Koreans seized the U.S.S. Pueblo. The incident sent shock waves around the world-almost started a war-and has been the focus of controversy and contradiction ever since. Investigative reporter Robert Liston uncovered startling information to support a remarkable conclusion: The Pueblo was purposely surrendered in a covert mission conceived and carried out by the National Security Agency, a super-secret branch of U.S. intelligence. Liston produces documented evidence to show that the Pueblo, controlled by NSA operatives, was used as bait to draw the Soviet Union and Red Chinese into an NSA trap-an operation that enabled the NSA to break the Soviet system of codes, put the KGB on the defensive for years, and stop a possible war between the Soviets and Chinese. For the first time, author Liston brings to light a true story of international intrigue hidden from the American public, from Congress, even from the White House. He goes inside the U.S. intelligence apparatus and reveals how the Pueblo incident may have shaped and controlled American foreign policy and superpower politics for more than twenty years.
The naked and drowned body of beauty queen Kellie Greene is no sooner found in her mother's swimming pool than Walter and DeeDee Byerly, known to the cops as the Bye-Byes, begin to turn up information suggesting murder. First, Walter learns his snitch friend, Henry Clay, was beaten up, had his money stolen, and "saw the naked lady," but did not look.Soon DeeDee learns from Hyacinth Owens, the beauteous employee in her flower shop, that Kellie Greene was heavily involved in something called the Temple of Love. Despite warnings, DeeDee sets out to investigate, joining the temple and even donning the sheer costume guaranteed to foster loveand death.Thus, do the Bye-Byes become embroiled in their most dangerous and challenging case, dealing not just with murder, but drugs, hypnotism and sexual temptation. Aided by Latina detective Lupe Hernandez, they must use all the talents that make them the wittiest and most endearing sleuths since Nick and Nora Charles.
It looks like Adriana Bright has done it again. Her first novel, Desire And Deceit, wowed readers. Now she introduces Walter and DeeDee Byerly, known as the Bye-Byes, amateur detectives to be sure, but also the funniest, wittiest and most endearing sleuths since Nick and Nora Charles.In The Tower of Evil, a ruthless murder, an abandoned toddler, a woman’s abduction and a matron suddenly homeless, all seemingly unrelated, form a mystery the Bye-Byes must untangle with the help of Lupe Hernandez, a Latina police detective.A reclusive billionaire, a glamorous and renowned advice guru, a hotshot lawyer and the political lure of the White House combine to challenge the wits and courage of the Bye-Byes.
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